Greetings From Ohio

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Greetings From Ohio
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• 106,765 sq km 35th in US
• Pop 11.5 M 7th in US
• GDP 373 Billion
• lowest pt.132 m
• highest pt. 473 m

Greetings From Ohio
E-W 360 km
N-S 370 km
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• MEMBERS
• State Library
• 49 private liberal arts colleges
• 23 public two-year colleges

• 1 standalone medical school (7 total med)
• 2 private universities
• 13 public universities
• Includes 9 law

• 499,000 FTE 130 primary delivery sites

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OhioLINK viewpointConsortium Electronic Book
Licenses its Just a Serial

• Common Licensing Expectations and Techniques for
  E-Book Publishers or E-book Aggregators learned
  from E-Journals

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E-Journal Licensing Lessons for E-books

• There is only one budget for both electronic and
  print book formats
• Must reflect dramatic increase in content and
  access per monetary unit spent
• Must be a more economically sustainable model
• Must reflect needs for perpetual access,
  archiving, preservation
• Must complement Inter-library loan systems
• Must focus on current and future content
• Conclusion Big Deal approach works best if we
  are to approach e-book licenses strategically

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Requirements for E-book Publishers

• Comprehensive, predictable scope of titles
• Electronic version concurrent with print
• Separate the back list from front list
• Pricing accounts for E-book collection plus
  expected print copies in combination
• Pricing is a reasonable extrapolation of
  historical group annual unit and spending levels
  for a comparable scope of titles
• Pricing includes additional discounts on print
  prices
• OhioLINK can locally load

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E-books are like Journals because

• The number of books produced each year by
  publishers is often very stable
• The number of books bought by a group each year
  is often very stable - as measured by percent of
  produced books and copies bought per title
• At the very minimum, there are often stable
  levels and trends which can be used to estimate
  future behavior
• Measuring multi-year book histories is like
  measuring current journal subscriptions

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Determining a Group License Price Part 1

• Measure annual print purchase history - at least
  5 years for a comparable scope of titles
• Book holdings - titles and copies by school
• Copies/title
• Percent of titles produced that are bought by the
  consortium
• Consortium cost at net price per title
• Extrapolate purchase history trends to determine
  future Status Quo expected value of the groups
  print business with book publisher

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Determining a Group License Price Part 2

• 3. Create Group License Potential Cost Matrix
  including both electronic and print
• Range of potential group electronic license
  prices
• Range of potential print purchase levels below
  the expected value of Status Quo print levels at
  expected discounted print prices
• 4. Negotiate to reasonable, sustainable win-win
  multi-year agreement
• 5. Divide electronic Group license fee among
  members based on shares of purchase history

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Example Publisher 1Yearly values indexed to
Annual Maximum
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Example Publisher 1Yearly values indexed to
Annual Maximum
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Example Publisher 1Yearly values indexed to
Annual Maximum
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Example Publisher 1Yearly values indexed to
Annual Maximum
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Example Publisher 2The Status Quo Projection
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Example Publisher 2 - Group License Potential
Cost Matrix includes both electronic and print
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Net Result of this Approach

• Strategic objectives met consistent with
  journals and other types of materials
• Expected total cost is realistic and controlled
• Easy to regulate if units and budgets get out of
  balance
• Healthier for publishers status quo trends show
  unit declines
• Reductions can be made to total print copies
  across the consortium shelf space saved
• Access is dramatically increased via e-books

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OhioLINK Status with E-books 1

• NetLibrary several evolving models now
  inactive with 15,000 titles
• Safari Tech books annual subscription only
• Oxford Reference Online Premium annual
  subscription only
• ARTFL French Literature annual subscription
• 15 Chadwyck-Healey American/English Literature
  Collections perpetual licenses local load

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OhioLINK Status with E-books 2

• Perpetual Licenses directly with Publishers with
  local load
• ABC-CLIO Reference
• Gale Virtual Reference Shelf their controlled
  imprints
• Oxford Scholarship Online
• Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
• Sage Reference
• Springer
• Others in Negotiation including Aggregator

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Thank You

• tom_at_ohiolink.edu